# Fractures at NORTHERN TREE SERVICE
> OSHA SIR `2017076778` · 7/20/2017 · MONTGOMERY, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Log loaders
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** NORTHERN TREE SERVICE
- **Location:** Road Shoulder, MONTGOMERY, MASSACHUSETTS, 01085
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sitting in the operator seat of a log loader truck preparing to assist in a tree felling operation when a tree limb broke and fell on him, knocking him to the ground. He fractured four vertebrae, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*